I suggested they only put in adds in the search engine. If you browse directly to a page from the alphabetical listings or main page / topic, no ad is inserted. Use the Google powered search, you get an ad.
Heck, have two options, search using wiki engine or use google powered (faster and better??) search with ads.
Hoping people continue to give money to support a big web page is a pipe dream. At least the red cross does something to help people. Providing free stories on Azeroth is great and all and certainly helps those poor starving kids in Africa, but they may want to find a way to fund their little webpage.
I bet a DVD collection with the million articles in English might sell pretty well, especially at a decent price.
And if it is free and redistributable, where is the download a copy of wikipedia button on the web page? Or do I just run a nice wget command?
Debate over the possessive form of words ending in s
* While it is commonly perceived that words ending in s simply gain an apostrophe in their possessive form (Mr. Jones' sock garters), the University of Delaware provides these guidelines [2]:
o To form the possessive of a plural noun ending in "s" simply add an apostrophe.
+ dogs' bones
+ boys' bicycles
o To form the possessive of a singular noun that ends in an "s" sound, be guided by the way the word is pronounced. If a new syllable is formed in the pronunciation of the possessive, add an apostrophe plus "s."
+ boss's office
+ witness's memory
* A more prescriptivist approach is to add an s to single syllable words (Mr. Jones's sock garters), and omit them from multi-syllable words (witness' memory).
Wikipedia should offer search functionality to the highest bidder, assuming they only insert google type text adverts along the side of the content (not even at the top), maybe max out at 5 or so. Google would make millions and wikepedia would make millions and people would get decent non intrusive advertising.
Wikipedia would continue to "control" the content, but they could make some money to help support the site.
It is silly to start a site and assume it will run off of donations and community good will forever. Even a nonprofit should have some rational business plan.
And maybe the should sell DVDs with an image of the articles from a given day. Your own backup of wikipedia.
I have big fat fingers so I like having the full sized keyboard. I just wish they would make a laptop with full depth keys, not just full width. The extra depth makes a difference, but I learned to type on a manual typewriter back in the day. Maybe newer kids don't mind key travel so much.
I have one of those moster HP laptops. I get maybe an hour on battery. Big screen, full size keyboard with separate keypad, giant screen, regular desktop processor. Over 10 lbs and huge.
The think is so big as to almost not open correctly in coach on planes. Good thing the bat only lasts 45 minutes. If you can find a plug in the airport it is awesome to work with.
Get a bigger bag and hit the gym you little/. nerds, bigger is better. This new thing is awesome.
Can't any idiot set up their IP to compete with yahoo or google? Somebody has to dole out the numeric address namespace, and some bad ISP probably could try to redirect traffic to their own google or yahoo.
Plus, hard linking a number seems a bad way to do things as you can't change it later easily. That number has to stay constant.
By the same token, I run at 1600x1200 with my browser maximized. Your site should still be navigable at 640x480 and 1600x1200 using nominal setttings. If you force 8 pt font on me, I am going to be perterbed, use relative scaling if possible.
I still pop my mail to my local server. They only give us a 50 MB quota, so I have to download all my mail to a local machine, which is now over 5 GB in/nsmail. I don't have access to all my mail from home or online (unless I run moz over X slowly). I generally use a web client anywhere other than my desk.
Good thing americans on average have $8,000 in credit card debt. We don't have a whol lot in savings accounts.
How is this more complicated than the current IRS system? Nothing is more complex than the current code. What loopholes are there? If you sell something, you charge tax? What is more complicated than that?
I really don't see your unsubstantiated attacks on the fair tax. I don't see loopholes, other than a business that doesn't pay taxes, but that should be easy to fix.
But the comments at digg are even more pathetic than here at/. We have plenty of retartds and trolls, but they seem to have an endless supply of high schoolers and nothing else.
I like the story system over there for promoting articles, but the comments and community have a long way to go.
I think the current sales tax plan is actually progressive. Everyone gets a check every month for like $500. That pays for the tax on the first ~ $1000 of stuff, assuming a 50% tax, so those that are in the low end pay no tax. All higher spending brackets get the $500 credit, but that is nothing if you are spending $10,000 + %5,000 tax. Progressive.
I don't get your savings argument. You get more money to put in the bank if you so desire, so large tax encourages savings. You only pay tax when you take money out and buy something.
3D? We are still fairly happy with 2D interfaces that have dominated for the last 15-20 years.
I want bigger. I was excited to run 1024x768 in '95, a few years ago, I was happy with a 21 inch 1600x1200.
Now I am envious of the crazy Apple displays that run 1600x2400 or the IBM high res that is like 3000x2000.
More resolution and bigger screen = more real estate, more productivity.
I have tried multiple monitors, but it isn't that great for me. Too much work to turn my big lazy head.
One ginormous screen the size of an actual desktop would suffice. 3 foot by 5 foot or so, at 300 or more DPI. What is that, like 10,000x15,000 resolution or there abouts...
The internet is a public place. You should think of it as a public park, where a cop could be around any corner watching for lawbreakers, or god forbid, CC cameras in use to make monitoring of a public place more efficient.
I can understand fighting for better oversight on wiretaps. Rather than no judicial oversight, maybe the bar should be lowered so that taps are easier to get. At least there would be some level of check and balance.
Where does it say in the constitution that you have a right to know when the FBI has been in your house snooping around? I don't think that comes up in an ammenment.
And publice libraries are public. If you want privacy, go to a private library with privacy terms to your liking. Or pay cash at your local bookstore, but don't forget to wear a funny hat in case the feds were taking your pic.
My wife and I just discovered some new features that were rolled out for our series 2 Tivo-
If you have your tivo online, you can get some of this stuff:
Yahoo Photos
Yahoo Weather
Yahoo Traffic
Buy movie tickets
Music Streaming
Podcasts
Games (three simple ones)
I tried some of this before, streaming MP3s and Pictures from my PC, but it was not as impressive as this, and it depended on my PC being up and running with the Tivo server software.
The interface to all this stuff is slick and nicely done, as always.
My wife loves the marble game "same game." She won't stop playing it.
I have struggled to get a MythTV box up and running in the past, but with little success. Remote problems, kernel problems running a HD tuner, etc. Spent hours and I now have a limping system. Tivo makes me happy, although it could be better:
- More HD space. 80 GB is silly these days.
- More tuners. I need 2 normal and 1 HD OTA at least.
- More games
- Customizable. I would like to have my top 5-6 things on the main menu, not the marketing garbage Tivo puts in there. I want a shortcut to games or photos under "live tv"
We may have to get another Tivo When the time cones. I have been avoiding doing it now, as two tivos apparently do not work out conflicts or share programs seamlessly. I want one big honkin Tivo that does everything. I wish I could find a vendor that sold decent Myth Boxes, that might do as well as long as I don't have to set it up.
I originally posted this on alt.video.ptv.tivo as it was rejected as a/. submission... Tivo rocks!
1080i is great for slow moving high res stuff, like landscapes and stuff on PBS.
720p is great for sports.
I personally want a 1080p native system before I move to HDTV. , or else I will feel that I am being down-sampled when I want 1080i. I feel much better about upsampling from 720p to 1080p.
Just read there are nice 1080p systems out there if you look. A couple of huge 46" flat screens are out for about $6000. The 1080p projectors are still about $20,000.
A buddy of mine at Georgia Tech got busted for this in 1995. He was a big Jimmy Buffet fan and had put lyrics online and he got a cease and desist.
This stuff is copyright and they don't want you to publish it online, even if you are president of the fan club. I personally don't get it, but they own the copyright so they can take their ball and go home.
That is one of my favorite Bushisms from the debates. My wife hates it when I use it in public, mostly since nobody remembers it but me and this guy, apparently.
My other favorite was "mis-underestimate" used in reference to the views of his critics. I used that term correctly in a paper on underestimation of nonconvex functions...
"That sounds to me like the definition of what government is supposed to do: provide essential services with a focus on maximising service, not profit."
If you are US citizen, you need to go review your trusty copy of the constitution.
Government run monopoly is not what the US is about.
Defend us from all threats, foreign and domestic is the number one job.
There has really been very little internet anonymity. If you do illegal stuff, your ISP will be able to hunt you down generally. They have even opened up anonymous remailers. Sure, find an open wireless access point and you may be online, but your MAC gets sent along with whatever you do. Cash access in an internet cafe is about as anonymous as you could get, except for all the closed-circuit cameras in public places.
Never expect anything online to be private. People don't get that. The internet is a very public place. If you are really nuts, you can try and encrypt everything but you still aren't tempest proof. You have no privacy online.
I have thought about 3 thousand dollar XGA vertical so you get 3x768x1024=2302x1024, which would be pretty close to 1080p. Or I will wait a few years until 1080p DLP comes down in price.
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I suggested they only put in adds in the search engine. If you browse directly to a page from the alphabetical listings or main page / topic, no ad is inserted. Use the Google powered search, you get an ad.
Heck, have two options, search using wiki engine or use google powered (faster and better??) search with ads.
Hoping people continue to give money to support a big web page is a pipe dream. At least the red cross does something to help people. Providing free stories on Azeroth is great and all and certainly helps those poor starving kids in Africa, but they may want to find a way to fund their little webpage.
I bet a DVD collection with the million articles in English might sell pretty well, especially at a decent price.
And if it is free and redistributable, where is the download a copy of wikipedia button on the web page? Or do I just run a nice wget command?
Hate to pick nits, but you only just add an apostrophe to plural nouns that end in s. Singular words that end in s you still add 's.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe_(mark)
Debate over the possessive form of words ending in s
* While it is commonly perceived that words ending in s simply gain an apostrophe in their possessive form (Mr. Jones' sock garters), the University of Delaware provides these guidelines [2]:
o To form the possessive of a plural noun ending in "s" simply add an apostrophe.
+ dogs' bones
+ boys' bicycles
o To form the possessive of a singular noun that ends in an "s" sound, be guided by the way the word is pronounced. If a new syllable is formed in the pronunciation of the possessive, add an apostrophe plus "s."
+ boss's office
+ witness's memory
* A more prescriptivist approach is to add an s to single syllable words (Mr. Jones's sock garters), and omit them from multi-syllable words (witness' memory).
Wikipedia should offer search functionality to the highest bidder, assuming they only insert google type text adverts along the side of the content (not even at the top), maybe max out at 5 or so. Google would make millions and wikepedia would make millions and people would get decent non intrusive advertising.
Wikipedia would continue to "control" the content, but they could make some money to help support the site.
It is silly to start a site and assume it will run off of donations and community good will forever. Even a nonprofit should have some rational business plan.
And maybe the should sell DVDs with an image of the articles from a given day. Your own backup of wikipedia.
I have big fat fingers so I like having the full sized keyboard. I just wish they would make a laptop with full depth keys, not just full width. The extra depth makes a difference, but I learned to type on a manual typewriter back in the day. Maybe newer kids don't mind key travel so much.
I have one of those moster HP laptops. I get maybe an hour on battery. Big screen, full size keyboard with separate keypad, giant screen, regular desktop processor. Over 10 lbs and huge.
The think is so big as to almost not open correctly in coach on planes. Good thing the bat only lasts 45 minutes. If you can find a plug in the airport it is awesome to work with.
Get a bigger bag and hit the gym you little
Can't any idiot set up their IP to compete with yahoo or google? Somebody has to dole out the numeric address namespace, and some bad ISP probably could try to redirect traffic to their own google or yahoo.
Plus, hard linking a number seems a bad way to do things as you can't change it later easily. That number has to stay constant.
By the same token, I run at 1600x1200 with my browser maximized. Your site should still be navigable at 640x480 and 1600x1200 using nominal setttings. If you force 8 pt font on me, I am going to be perterbed, use relative scaling if possible.
I still pop my mail to my local server. They only give us a 50 MB quota, so I have to download all my mail to a local machine, which is now over 5 GB in /nsmail. I don't have access to all my mail from home or online (unless I run moz over X slowly). I generally use a web client anywhere other than my desk.
Good thing americans on average have $8,000 in credit card debt. We don't have a whol lot in savings accounts.
How is this more complicated than the current IRS system? Nothing is more complex than the current code. What loopholes are there? If you sell something, you charge tax? What is more complicated than that?
I really don't see your unsubstantiated attacks on the fair tax. I don't see loopholes, other than a business that doesn't pay taxes, but that should be easy to fix.
But the comments at digg are even more pathetic than here at
I like the story system over there for promoting articles, but the comments and community have a long way to go.
I think the current sales tax plan is actually progressive. Everyone gets a check every month for like $500. That pays for the tax on the first ~ $1000 of stuff, assuming a 50% tax, so those that are in the low end pay no tax. All higher spending brackets get the $500 credit, but that is nothing if you are spending $10,000 + %5,000 tax. Progressive.
I don't get your savings argument. You get more money to put in the bank if you so desire, so large tax encourages savings. You only pay tax when you take money out and buy something.
Good think this is the EU and EVERYONE has IQ over 130. No retards in the socialist utopia of EU, since education is perfect there.
Or was that Canada, I get so confused.
I swear I saw a triple way back, two back-to-back and the third still on the front page. So things are improving slowly...
3D? We are still fairly happy with 2D interfaces that have dominated for the last 15-20 years.
I want bigger. I was excited to run 1024x768 in '95, a few years ago, I was happy with a 21 inch 1600x1200.
Now I am envious of the crazy Apple displays that run 1600x2400 or the IBM high res that is like 3000x2000.
More resolution and bigger screen = more real estate, more productivity.
I have tried multiple monitors, but it isn't that great for me. Too much work to turn my big lazy head.
One ginormous screen the size of an actual desktop would suffice. 3 foot by 5 foot or so, at 300 or more DPI. What is that, like 10,000x15,000 resolution or there abouts...
The internet is a public place. You should think of it as a public park, where a cop could be around any corner watching for lawbreakers, or god forbid, CC cameras in use to make monitoring of a public place more efficient.
I can understand fighting for better oversight on wiretaps. Rather than no judicial oversight, maybe the bar should be lowered so that taps are easier to get. At least there would be some level of check and balance.
Where does it say in the constitution that you have a right to know when the FBI has been in your house snooping around? I don't think that comes up in an ammenment.
And publice libraries are public. If you want privacy, go to a private library with privacy terms to your liking. Or pay cash at your local bookstore, but don't forget to wear a funny hat in case the feds were taking your pic.
My wife and I just discovered some new features that were rolled out
for our series 2 Tivo-
If you have your tivo online, you can get some of this stuff:
Yahoo Photos
Yahoo Weather
Yahoo Traffic
Buy movie tickets
Music Streaming
Podcasts
Games (three simple ones)
I tried some of this before, streaming MP3s and Pictures from my PC,
but it was not as impressive as this, and it depended on my PC being up
and running with the Tivo server software.
The interface to all this stuff is slick and nicely done, as always.
My wife loves the marble game "same game." She won't stop playing it.
I have struggled to get a MythTV box up and running in the past, but
with little success. Remote problems, kernel problems running a HD
tuner, etc. Spent hours and I now have a limping system. Tivo makes
me happy, although it could be better:
- More HD space. 80 GB is silly these days.
- More tuners. I need 2 normal and 1 HD OTA at least.
- More games
- Customizable. I would like to have my top 5-6 things on the main
menu, not the marketing garbage Tivo puts in there. I want a shortcut
to games or photos under "live tv"
We may have to get another Tivo When the time cones. I have been
avoiding doing it now, as two tivos apparently do not work out
conflicts or share programs seamlessly. I want one big honkin Tivo
that does everything. I wish I could find a vendor that sold decent
Myth Boxes, that might do as well as long as I don't have to set it up.
I originally posted this on alt.video.ptv.tivo as it was rejected as a
1080i is great for slow moving high res stuff, like landscapes and stuff on PBS.
720p is great for sports.
I personally want a 1080p native system before I move to HDTV. , or else I will feel that I am being down-sampled when I want 1080i. I feel much better about upsampling from 720p to 1080p.
Just read there are nice 1080p systems out there if you look. A couple of huge 46" flat screens are out for about $6000. The 1080p projectors are still about $20,000.
A buddy of mine at Georgia Tech got busted for this in 1995. He was a big Jimmy Buffet fan and had put lyrics online and he got a cease and desist.
This stuff is copyright and they don't want you to publish it online, even if you are president of the fan club. I personally don't get it, but they own the copyright so they can take their ball and go home.
That is one of my favorite Bushisms from the debates. My wife hates it when I use it in public, mostly since nobody remembers it but me and this guy, apparently.
My other favorite was "mis-underestimate" used in reference to the views of his critics. I used that term correctly in a paper on underestimation of nonconvex functions...
No, not that I know of. One is in one car and one is in another.
/wants, like football or baseball or Stern.
I thought I saw something about a high end receiver that could do XM and sirius.
In my experience, they are very similar for the most part. Unless you have specific needs
We have Sirius and XM and are quite happy. I hate ads and will pay $25 per month to get rid of them, plus have a lot of options to bounce around to.
"That sounds to me like the definition of what government is supposed to do: provide essential services with a focus on maximising service, not profit."
If you are US citizen, you need to go review your trusty copy of the constitution.
Government run monopoly is not what the US is about.
Defend us from all threats, foreign and domestic is the number one job.
There has really been very little internet anonymity. If you do illegal stuff, your ISP will be able to hunt you down generally. They have even opened up anonymous remailers. Sure, find an open wireless access point and you may be online, but your MAC gets sent along with whatever you do. Cash access in an internet cafe is about as anonymous as you could get, except for all the closed-circuit cameras in public places.
Never expect anything online to be private. People don't get that. The internet is a very public place. If you are really nuts, you can try and encrypt everything but you still aren't tempest proof. You have no privacy online.
Yeah, but 1080p systems (1920x1080 LCD or DLP) systems are super $$$. Like over $10,000
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http://www.plexhometheater.com/jvcdlahd2kuproject
I have thought about 3 thousand dollar XGA vertical so you get 3x768x1024=2302x1024, which would be pretty close to 1080p. Or I will wait a few years until 1080p DLP comes down in price.